LAAT-QUARTAIRE VEGETATIEGESCHIEDENIS VAN NOORD- EN NOORDWEST-TURKIJE

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Palynological investigations in northen and northwesten Turkey have provided thirteen pollen diagrams covering roughly the last 13 millennia. Vegetation development fol­lowed the same general trend as in south­western Turkey, a pronounced Late-Glacial steppe phase changing into Early-Holocene forest, but the composition and the develop­ment of the vegetation differed botanically and chronologically. Conspicuous changes in the pollen assemblages took place around 3200 BP and seem to respresent human activity as well as climatic change.